The Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels will reopen on September 14, four months after a terrorist attack that killed four people, a couple of Israeli tourists, a volunteer and an employee of the museum.
The museum had been closed to the public since the attack.
The Date of reopening of the museum will coincide with the 15th European Day of Jewish Culture. A ceremony will be attended by several political, cultural, diplomatic and religious personalities. The event will include speeches by Philippe Blondin, the president of the Jewish Museum of Belgium, as well as Belgium’s Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.
On this occasion, the institution will host an exhibition on women in Judaism. Synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish site, normally closed to the public, will be be accessible on that day.
The European Association for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (AEPJ), which organizes the annual European Day of Jewish Culture, called on participants to observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the museum terror attack.
A Franco-Algerian,Mehdi Nemmouche, who according to the French authorities, went to Syria to fight with the jihadists in 2012, before returning to Europe, has been charged with the May 24 attack.
He is charged with murder in a terrorist context. He was transferred from France to Belgium in July and placed under arrest in the prison of Bruges.
Nemmouche, a resident of the French city of Roubaix, was found by chance by police in the southern French city of Marseille a week after the attack at the museum. He apparently fled Brussels for Amsterdam before returning to France by bus. Police found in his bag a Kalashnikov rifle, a revolver and a cap similar to the one he wore in the attack.